Barack Obama may have deemed it a part of "phony culture wars" ginned up by right-wing conspiracy theorists, but the criminal justice system has determined that the alleged rape in a Loudoun County public school restroom was very, very real. The "gender-fluid" boy charged with raping a teenage girl in a Stone Bridge High School girls' restroom has been convicted on two felony counts — forcible sodomy and forcible fellatio.
Between the county school board's pathological dishonesty and ineptitude regarding the rape and the prosecutor's crusade against the victim's father, the media have every obligation to continue to unpack the scandals still unsurfaced.
Despite the clear-cut conviction of the rapist in question,
the paper's so-called "justice reporter" disclosed the victim's prior sexual history.
Although journalists are not legally held to the same rape shield laws as defense attorneys in a courtroom, it is industry practice not to publicize an alleged rape victim's sexual history independent of the incident in question, especially when doing so has no meaningful effect on the story in question.
Consent is not like a monthly parking pass. It can be given or withdrawn at any time, and consenting to one form of sexual contact does not provide a blanket pass for any other form of contact or intercourse. This is not a novel concept — it's the very notion that undergirded the widespread criminalization of spousal rape half a century ago
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/can-the-washington-post-please-not-slut-shame-a-child
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